ABSTRACT
This book explores, for the first time, the precarity of the self in a Protestant writer/courtier and a Catholic writer/missionary; proclivity for deconstruction/re-construction amid telling politico-religious contingencies; confrontation with ubiquitous social, religious, and political changes; influence by religious dogmas (Calvinist and Jesuit), political views (Taciteanism and resistance theory), science, and literary conventions; criticism of the court and monarchical loyalty; repercussions of their works on their readership; and the similarities/dissimilarities that bring them together in this volume.
